The Street Fighter VI Story Thread: Shadaloo Died so Luke Could Live!

[ShockDingo]

The whole "leak" was by an impersonator

https://twitter.com/ElChakotay/status/1772303219462471857?t=HThsLj-T8z9KnqpyJzZiew&s=19

[CESTUS III]

3 hours ago, ShockDingo said:

The whole "leak" was by an impersonator

https://twitter.com/ElChakotay/status/1772303219462471857?t=HThsLj-T8z9KnqpyJzZiew&s=19

Not even sure how to feel about it

 

One side leak list had LOT i disagree with

 

On the other we're not guaranteed we will get better deal 😆

[DarthEnderX]

I liked how the leak had 6 characters at least...

[CESTUS III]

6 hours ago, DarthEnderX said:

I liked how the leak had 6 characters at least...

 

That was for sure my first "+" in the pro and cons list (maybe second after Elena in lol)

 

One tricky part i'm thinking is that Capcom seems not much on the idea to do a 6-char season, so as much i hate it if we get a 6-char S2 we have to pray marketable enough to sell A LOT if we want S3 to be 6-char too

 

I say i hate it as best/most variety improvement seasons i can imagine surely would sacrify some marketing potential to pick also unpopular characters that average audience dislike (or not love) but would enrich the cast

 

Trying to imagine a S2 that i would like but also imagine would do good money

 

Sagat

Fei Long

Makoto

Hugo

Menat

Cody

 

This would be cool list imho, covering 3 chars in the top10 popularity list still not in (Makoto#2, Cody#5 and Sagat #7) plus Menat that back to the poll days was'nt even a thing but is popular, yet  at same time are basically ALL chars i would really love see in SF6

Hugo was my unpopular pick (we need a giant in SF6) lol, but others would carry him well imho

Had to sacrify (just delay on reality) Elena and Dudley that i like more than some there, but i would surely add them in my ideal S3 lol

 

Problem is does'nt leave room for 1 (or 2?) new characters

 

[CESTUS III]

 

That can be decent attempt to

a bit the thread lol

 

We ever stick to names we want see return, but rarely on what unique and still missing they bring to the table

[YagamiFire]

Not having a stance character definitely feels strange. We need a proper successor for Gen.

[CESTUS III]

On 3/30/2024 at 1:41 AM, YagamiFire said:

Not having a stance character definitely feels strange. We need a proper successor for Gen.

Yeah, would like one
I'm not sure about Gen successor though... would have LOVED see their male concept to evolve into SF6 as some sort of capcom Gato, but i fear that got eat by Jamie and i'm not much interested into get this

Spoiler

 

Sodom is one would be fun re-imagined as stance character imho

One stance you have him using jitte

Other stance you have him use katanas or bokken/shinai if blade is "problematic"

 

One i don't want is Zeku... i like the dude, but fear would further cripple chances of get 6 char season lol

 

Doubt will become playable (and for bunch of reasons i hope not), but Dobermann by concept/canon pov is absolutely a stance character lol

 

 

Beside Stance char, i would really want see the "Giant char" return

Be it Hugo or somebody new

I like the idea of Zangief being the muscle wrestling dude, but also have in the cast somebody that dwarf him, somebody that make of his own giant frame/mass/height their main tool to fight...

[CESTUS III]

 

"Akuma is coming" likely the next one

[YagamiFire]

Monster Hunter stuff is always the easiest of easy skips for  me

[CESTUS III]

7 hours ago, YagamiFire said:

Monster Hunter stuff is always the easiest of easy skips for  me

 

Yeah as FP kinda weak (including arcade game pick), "Akuma is coming" next one will for sure bring more useful traditional fighter pieces

 

Would say with the exception of Final Fight FP wich has been the best, so far the "XXXX is coming" FPs have been the easily the most intersting

 

Some MH weapns in the shop are useful and relatively low price though, bought for 1000DT a blade for my D.Dark 😁

[DarthEnderX]

I'll be honest, I don't really care about the avatar stuff.  Because my avatar is pretty much exactly what I want them to be at this point, and I have no personal interest in making a bunch of different avatars.

 

I have my Rude clone with a boxiing style, and that's all I need.

 

I might switch out Specials/Supers depending on what we get, and I'd switch to Dudley's normals in a hearbeat.  But other than that, I'm done.

[martinitolove]

Hello guys! I live far away from North America but love Udon SF and DS comics. I have been collecting them digitally, but since two years they have stopped to offer them digitally. And I really hate having them on glossy and smelling paper 😉

To ship them to my country, due to the distance, taxes and customs, increases the price 5 times. Therefore I'm searching for someone living in USA.

My offer is that I will buy  and ship the comics from last two years to you. You will scan them (no foto) and email to me. Then keep the paper comics for yourself.

 

If you are interested - please message me 🙏

[sagatryu]

The person I know who knows a lot about the Udon comics is Sano.

[martinitolove]

On 4/5/2024 at 7:09 PM, sagatryu said:

The person I know who knows a lot about the Udon comics is Sano.

Thank you very much, but he declined my offer 🙏

[CESTUS III]

On 4/4/2024 at 2:32 PM, DarthEnderX said:

I'll be honest, I don't really care about the avatar stuff.  Because my avatar is pretty much exactly what I want them to be at this point, and I have no personal interest in making a bunch of different avatars.

 

I have my Rude clone with a boxiing style, and that's all I need.

 

I might switch out Specials/Supers depending on what we get, and I'd switch to Dudley's normals in a hearbeat.  But other than that, I'm done.

 

I'm sure you'rfar from alone at that, and it's a fucking shame to me lol 😄 

 

I think there's a majority who's even hating avatar stuff, and tbh i blame it mostly on Capcom in many ways but specially for creating the false perception character creation is getting all the goods, while on reality their way to handle is absolutely shit poor too, just not as poor as how they're shameless ignoring main cast dlc stuff (wich bother me too as does to anybody else)

 

Wich is a shame as the ability to "create SF characters" for me that i'm both SF fan and design guy is a dream, too bad capcom's mediocrity and greed is making it maybe 50% at best of what could have been

 

Personally i'm still LOVING it because allow me to see/use ingame characters that otherwise Capcom will not add (or maybe some will but years from today), be them former SFers or even muh SFEX crew, or rejected SF concepts etc

 

Basically will try to use it as i did with SC6 character creation, there i got close to SC version of your "everybody is here!" utopia 😄 

https://8wayrun.com/threads/teh-gatsus-sc-universe-temple-post-quarantine-edition.21104/

 

Too bad as i said before SF6 went half ass with character creation too, so while i enjoy my stuff we can't use them as characters as was for SC, but it's indeed mostly threated by capcom as silly "avatar stuff" as you say

 

I find it kinda sad and wasted opportunity, because if i think at CC of SF6 the one that come to my mind is highly detailed stuff in my copy of the game, while community perception of it is

[CESTUS III]

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Some bullets dodged, some missed opportunities

 

- AKI had some designs better than one we end up, i really like the very FANGesque 4th but even more the red 5th

 

- Rashid end up more or less same level

 

- Ed ultimately got much better designs ingame, i take both the Standard and Alt ones over anything i see there

 

- Akuma ones are terrible, but i like the 4th as artwork

[DarthEnderX]

I like the wide-brim hat AKIs better than the mushroom hair we got.

 

I'm glad Rashid didn't have a drone jetpack.  😛

 

I like the Ed with the hood over the cap.

[Chun-Li_Forever]

 

 

[Dragonfave723]

Someone from another forum translated the Japanese text from the right as peaceful Akuma with complete control over the Satsui no Hado . 

[Darc_Requiem]

That 5th A.K.I. design with the red hair is perfection. I wish we would have gotten that one. Some of the other ones are good but they don't have "iconic" look to me. They seem to derivative or similar to designs for other characters. The 10th one is cool but it makes me immediately think of classic Ashrah from the 3D era MK games. Don't really have much to say about Rashid's nothing really stands out. Ed's, I just don't have anything good to say about them. Akuma's, sans design 4, look like joke memes.

[CESTUS III]

2 hours ago, Darc_Requiem said:

That 5th A.K.I. design with the red hair is perfection. I wish we would have gotten that one.

Yeah that's my fav too 😁

 

Only thing i'm not sold is color scheme, would have prefered something like this to be the standard palette

[Darc_Requiem]

42 minutes ago, CESTUS III said:

Yeah that's my fav too 😁

 

Only thing i'm not sold is color scheme, would have prefered something like this to be the standard palette

Give her the same color scheme as her current default look and keep her albino just with that design aesthetic.

[CESTUS III]

14 hours ago, Darc_Requiem said:

Give her the same color scheme as her current default look and keep her albino just with that design aesthetic.

[Darc_Requiem]

51 minutes ago, CESTUS III said:

That third image....

 

[ShockDingo]

Always happy to see what's left on the cutting room floor. Redhead Aki looks good, but feels like an entirely different character, I love the crazy,  creepy, cute design we got with the snakeskin pants and mushroom hair. Echoing the points about the other characters, but I really dig that 4th Akuma at Peace one.

[CESTUS III]

Tbh i'm ok with AKI final look too

I just pointed out she's a very rare case where imho there was better options in dropped sketches, as usually i agree with capcom pick on best route for final ingame design

 

Only others i can think are Guile (imho his standard SF6 design is weak, imho they was getting better ideas through concept phase)

and Ryu, but tbh there it's just me hating the fucking beard (too bad i'm not on pc so can't mod that shit off* ), this would have been my fav Ryu design ever lol

yeah yeah i know everybody else (apparently capcom designers less, but marketing rule) love the beard though lol

 

I'm not sure i'm sold on Akuma's change from original concept to final

overall new color scheme contrast better and definitely works better, yet feel lost bit of identity (sure, we could link it to classic "Shin Akuma" look though)

For sure i prefer smaller beard of first one, affect the classic look less and let eye focus more on hair, in second one the santa beard take lot of spotlight

 

Must admit it help A LOT show visually he took seriously hermit shit, second design achieve sell perfectly how far from society/civilization he gone (will be fun see him text with smartphone lol)

 

I liked more also original Lily, but i know i'm on huge minority here too

 

 

* there has been also a mod on nostalgia one too, beard there looks barely visible yet modded version without it does wonders make it waaay cooler/closer to Ryu's classic artworks look

 

[Darc_Requiem]

20 hours ago, ShockDingo said:

Always happy to see what's left on the cutting room floor. Redhead Aki looks good, but feels like an entirely different character, I love the crazy,  creepy, cute design we got with the snakeskin pants and mushroom hair. Echoing the points about the other characters, but I really dig that 4th Akuma at Peace one.

The A.K.I. design we are all marking out over has snakeskin pants as well.

[Lord_Vega]

😍😍

 

Edited April 10 by Lord_Vega

[YagamiFire]

I feel like the AKI we got is far more interesting looking than her concept art.

[CESTUS III]

10 hours ago, YagamiFire said:

I feel like the AKI we got is far more interesting looking than her concept art.

What i like of final AKI is the freak factor she bring in, at that it's true final ingame look step up it compared to concepts

 

14 hours ago, Lord_Vega said:

Lost my account few weeks before the char i was waiting got released 😭

[CESTUS III]

Street Fighter EX 6 development going well 😁

 

Warning BIG pic
click bunch of times for true size

Spoiler

 

[biachunli]

Capcom doesn't play with my heart!

 

 

[CESTUS III]

19 hours ago, biachunli said:

Capcom doesn't play with my heart!

 

I know fans and marketing loves the idea of Ryu x Chun Li, but if we speak SF canon if he's doing anything on that side my money is still on him throwing dick-shin-shoryukens in Sakura

 

Actually would not be surprised if Chun made him buy that jacket to go to a date with Sakura, considering the jacket got cherry blossom (sakura) decoration

 

It's fun how others look up to Ryu to solve big things like uppercut the villain, yet his friends take care of him for normal life things... Ken handling his money, Chun giving suggestion on how to dress etc

 

On 4/8/2024 at 9:39 PM, Dragonfave723 said:

Someone from another forum translated the Japanese text from the right as peaceful Akuma with complete control over the Satsui no Hado . 

This post end up underrated, bring new perspective if end up ingame

 

[biachunli]

21 hours ago, CESTUS III said:

 

I know fans and marketing loves the idea of Ryu x Chun Li, but if we speak SF canon if he's doing anything on that side my money is still on him throwing dick-shin-shoryukens in Sakura

 

Actually would not be surprised if Chun made him buy that jacket to go to a date with Sakura, considering the jacket got cherry blossom (sakura) decoration

 

It's fun how others look up to Ryu to solve big things like uppercut the villain, yet his friends take care of him for normal life things... Ken handling his money, Chun giving suggestion on how to dress etc

 

This post end up underrated, bring new perspective if end up ingame

 

I'm of the opinion that, if they come together, everyone will be happy!  As I saw a designer (who unfortunately disappeared from Twitter) I like doing, putting RyuxKen and RyuxChun-Li together! 😌

 

 

 

 

 

 

However, to be honest, as much as I know about Ryu's friendship with Chun-Li, it's hard not to think of anything else with what Capcom has done. Sakura was left out. 🤷‍♀️

[Chun-Li_Forever]

On 4/13/2024 at 8:05 PM, biachunli said:

Capcom doesn't play with my heart!

 

 

 

Capcom acknowledges that it's canon!!!!

[DarthEnderX]

On 4/10/2024 at 9:23 AM, CESTUS III said:

overall new color scheme contrast better and definitely works better, yet feel lost bit of identity (sure, we could link it to classic "Shin Akuma" look though)

For sure i prefer smaller beard of first one, affect the classic look less and let eye focus more on hair, in second one the santa beard take lot of spotlight

Yeah, they definitely overdid it with the beard again.

[DarthEnderX]

Why the hell did they release the teaser trailer, like, 2 months before Akuma would actually launch?

[Shakunetsu]

 

There is something look visually good in the new SGS

 

I like the new backward teleport stance

 

Not a fan that every shoto still has the same vanila tatsu in SF6... SF5 did better

 

 

 

[Shakunetsu]

 

 

[sagatryu]

They gave Akuma a teleport throw attack for his Asura wrap and they change the animation of his Air fire ball super.  In the old 2d games he only use one  hand, while in SF6 he uses both hands to launch the  air fireball. 

 

 

Edited April 29 by sagatryu

[Shakunetsu]

11 minutes ago, sagatryu said:

They gave Akuma a teleport throw attack for his Asura wrap and they change the animation of his Air fire ball super.  In the old 2d games he only use one hair, while in SF6 he uses both hands to launch the  air fireball. 

Yup some air fireball reminds me of his SFEX incarnation and tricks

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited April 29 by Shakunetsu

[bakfromon]

2 hours ago, Shakunetsu said:

 

There is something look visually good in the new SGS

 

I like the new backward teleport stance

 

Not a fan that every shoto still has the same vanila tatsu in SF6... SF5 did better

 

 

 

 

The "new" teleport animation is borrowed from SFEX

 

14 minutes ago, Shakunetsu said:

 

 

Of course, as I mentioned numerous times the design concept has been borrowed from the manga

 

 

They decided to add the full script to the SGS form Ryu Final

[Shakunetsu]

4 minutes ago, bakfromon said:

The "new" teleport animation is borrowed from SFEX

Yup good thinvlg they still should keep the tradition of getting and improving the good stuff in the past. 

[Darc_Requiem]

The Akuma blog post is up

 

https://blog.playstation.com/2024/04/29/akuma-rages-into-street-fighter-6-on-may-22/

 

For anyone that watched Street Fighter Assasin's Fist. Akuma's level two is essentially what Goutetsu hits him during their fight. A devastating palm strike that sends a surge of ki through his opponents torso. Basically an SnH verison of Gouken's Senkugoshoha (Palm Strike).

Edited April 29 by Darc_Requiem

[CESTUS III]

5 minutes ago, Darc_Requiem said:

The Akuma blog post is up

 

https://blog.playstation.com/2024/04/29/akuma-rages-into-street-fighter-6-on-may-22/

 

For anyone that watched Street Fighter Assasin's Fist. Akuma's level two is essentially what Goutetsu hits him during their. A devastating palm strike that sends a surge of ki through his opponents torso. Basically an SnH verison of Gouken's Senkugoshoha (Palm Strike).

 

Pissed at this

because -without fire- shit would have looked so cool on Ryu and fitting his old SFV badassery, instead i got that hashogeki crap

I'm going to love steal that and some other stuff on my Makoto though, she's going to shape up well 😄 

 

Cool thing is as cutscene suggest he will have the new stage as location, so we will get new merchant (even if merchant living in same cave as Akuma is hilarious shit lmao), given the char hope we get some old school martial artist shit, God knows we have too much bland urban crap already lol

 

Love get confirmation 22 we get also third alt for S1 chars, i even forgot i had it already included within the S1 pass price

 

Good to see we will not have to wait S2 start for big balance patch

 

But still... give me S2 (at least announcement to know if be hyped or pissed) asap please

[Darc_Requiem]

1 minute ago, CESTUS III said:

Pissed at this

because -without fire- shit would have looked so cool on Ryu and fitting his old SFV badassery, instead i got that hashogeki crap

I'm going to love steal that and some other stuff on my Makoto though, she's going to shape up well 😄 

Oh my Gouka is going to eat good with this update. That Zanku Hadoken, Palm Strike, and Palm Strike Level 2 are mine. Hell I'm probably going to just ape his base move set because that would give me the Dive Kick as a command normal. Hmm....wonder if I'd be able to make a Gouken now?

[bakfromon]

2 hours ago, bakfromon said:

 

 

They decided to add the full script to the SGS form Ryu Final

 

 

 

 

I noticed that the parable that Udon had translated was a bit wonky and out of order.

 

We all know that Capcom decides to transiterate it as "Die One Thousand Deaths" but Udon tried to be more faithful to what was being written. 

 

一瞬千撃抜山蓋世鬼哭啾啾故 豪鬼成

One thousand instant strikes, with enough power to rend mountains and overshadow the world, the souls of the dead cry out, that which has become a great demon. 

 

 

 

[Darc_Requiem]

In a sign of how little Tekken 7 I actually played, I didn't catch that Akuma's new move comes from Tekken.

 

https://tekken.fandom.com/wiki/Shakunetsu_Messho

 

Saw a comment in Evil Canadian's Akuma breakdown video.

[ShockDingo]

I'm not even the biggest Akuma fan, but he looks fantastic. I'm loving the details and aesthetic push he's gotten. Someone on Twitter pointed out that for some moves, his entire face darkens. I love that Capcom is overhauling so many things, that's why I wanna see more SF3 folks, I can only imagine how cool they'll be under this direction!

[BornWinner]

Same. While I never much cared for Akuma (recognize the impact of him though) his design and animations in this game are amazing. They did a lot to make him more than just ‘stronger shoto’. Just look at his Drive Impact.